2E. Radiation and Women. The Effects of Radiation on Women, Including During Pregnancy. The Effects of Radiation on Children
Beyond Nuclear
https://beyondnuclear.org
Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network
https://nislappdc.org/fukushima-fallout/
Generational Radiation Impact Project
https://www.radiationproject.org
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
https://www.ippnw.org
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
https://www.nirs.org
The realization that girls and women have a greater risk of cancer, disease and death from radiation exposure than do boys and men is important news. We must gain a better understanding of this difference, and ensure that society provides adequate protection, through scientifically informed regulations and practices.
— Terrence Clark, M.D.
Leslie M.M. Blume, Chloe Shrager. "Trump's new radiation exposure limits could be catastrophic for women and girls." [2025] Detailed article from a reputable source, with extensive quotes from experts in the field of nuclear safety.
https://archive.ph/23UIs
Fairewinds Energy Education. "Consequences of a catastrophe: 31 years of Chernobyl." [2017]
https://archive.ph/5QPQn
Cindy Folkers. "The uranium map in our bodies: Where uranium and its decay products go and how they harm us." [2019]
Discussion with emphasis on effects of radioactive isotopes during pregnancy.
https://archive.ph/wip/0AhPc
Murtaza Hussein. "Iraqi children born near U.S. military base show elevated rates of "serious congenital deformities," study finds.: 'The war has spread so much radiation here that, unless it is cleaned up, generations of Iraqis will continue to be affected.'" [2019]
https://archive.ph/ZU4X6
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. "Radium girls: The story of US Radium's Superfund Site. Orange, New Jersey." [2021]
"The saga of the US Radium Corporation site illustrates the importance and origins of environmental protection regulation and workplace safety in the United States."
https://www.nj.gov/dep/hpo/1identify/nrsr_19_Mar_Radium_girls.pdf
Amanda M. Nichols, Mary Olson. "Gender and ionizing radiation: Towards a new research agenda addressing disproportionate harm." [UNIDIR Report, 2024]
https://unidir.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Gender_and_ionizing_radiation_web.pdf
Mary Olson. "Japan diary 2016, Fukushima+5, Part 4. Atomic radiation is more harmful to girls and women." [2016]
https://archive.ph/wip/Vps4m
Suree Towfighnia. "Lakota women and ranchers lead charge to break silence against uranium mine: In a region of Nebraska ripe with stories from the brutal Indian wars, allies from all sides of history are joining forces in the effort to protect their water." [2015]
https://archive.ph/wip/ixw8u
Wudan Yan. "The nuclear sins of the Soviet Union live on in Kazakhstan." [2019]
https://archive.ph/wfRFa
It is tempting... to see ... [Stewart's] emphatic attentiveness as characteristic of a "feminist" science, and Alice does acknowledge that her way of going about problem solving may be related to her gender.
~ Gayle Greene. The woman who knew too much: Alice Stewart and the secrets of radiation
CCTV. "Nuclear free future: Gender matters in the Atomic Era. A conversation with Mary Olson." [2018]
VIDEO
https://www.cctv.org/watch-tv/programs/gender-matters-atomic-era
Nuclear Hotseat. "Gender & ionizing radiation – New UN Report – Co-authors Mary Olson, Amanda Nichols." [2025] PODCAST
https://www.nuclearhotseat.com/podcast/gender-ionizing-radiation-un-report/
Mary Olson. "Impact of radiation on girls and women." [2014]
https://www.nirs.org/impact-of-radiation-on-girls-and-women/
Natasha Zouaves. "She thought it was a prenatal vitamin. She didn’t know it was radioactive." [2025]
More than 800 poor Caucasian women were given radioactive iron as part of an experiment in 1946 by Vanderbilt University, which finally settled before trial and apologized.
VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnrd2XSnpUs
Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you were stronger than whatever tried to hurt you.
— Oncology Nursing News
Gayle Greene. The woman who knew too much: Alice Stewart and the secrets of radiation. [1999]
BOOK
Biography of the courageous woman doctor who fought misogyny and the nuclear industry to expose the harmful effects of radiation, particularly on children living near nuclear power stations.
https://archive.ph/wip/ctHrq
There are no regulatory protections for pregnant women in the general public and their fetuses, despite the fact that many radionuclides cross the placenta.
— Dr. Arjun Makhijani, President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research